Rodin

Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin (November 12, 1840 - November 17, 1917) is a French sculptor. His main works include the thinker, bronze age, Calais and Balzac.

Rodin was born on November 12, 1840 in a family of ordinary employees in the Latin District of Paris, France. In 1854, he entered the potit School of design, and formed an indissoluble bond with sculpture. In 1862, he entered the monastery of St. Timothy and completed the bust of IMAR. In 1875, he traveled to Italy and carefully studied the works of Donatello, Michelangelo and others, inspired by them. From 1876 to 1877, Rodin completed the bronze age. In 1879, he completed the group sculpture "call for arms to fight". In 1880, Rodin began to write the gate of hell. The project was huge and lasted until the end of Rodin's life in 1917. In 1886, he made a statue of Hugo, a writer. In 1898, it was completed as a statue of the writer Balzac. In 1916, he donated all his works to the French government. Rodin died on November 17, 1917, at the age of 77.

Rodin's creation has a great influence on the development of modern European sculpture. He and his two students, marjor and budel, are known as the "three pillars" of European sculpture.

Character experience

Auguste Rodin was born on November 12, 1840, in the rue albalet of the Rue Saint beloved in Paris. His father, Jean Baptiste Rodin, was a police clerk and his mother, Mary de Schaeffer, was from Lorraine. His sister Maria was born in 1837 and has a deep relationship with him. In 1845, he entered the local church primary school to study arithmetic and Latin. In 1854, Rodin went to Beauvais and spent three years in his uncle Hippolyte Rodin's boarding school. In the same year, he entered the Royal School of painting and Mathematics - primary school, where he studied painting with eloace Lecoq de boisbaudran. There, he came into contact with sculpture and met sculptor Leon fulkai. from 1857 to 1859, he applied for the French Academy of fine arts three times in a row, and all failed; from 1858, he began to work for different interior decorators and artists. In 1860, he created a bust of Jean Baptist Rodin, which is his first work to be preserved. In 1862, Rodin was hit hard by the death of his sister Maria, so he entered the monastery of St. John and stayed there until May or June 1863. During this period, he created a bust of father EMAR, the founder of the order. In 1863, while studying painting in the Louvre Museum, he worked for decorative artists Bieze and fanniere. In the same year, he became a member of the National Art Association. In 1864, he participated in the decoration project of the goblin theatre and owned his first studio, the stables on LeBron street in District 13. The first model working in the studio was Bibby, a poor man from St. Marcel. In the same year, he met 20-year-old seamstress Ruth berry and created his first large sculpture, the priestess, based on her Unexpectedly, it was damaged during a relocation. In 1865, the sculpture portrait of model Bibi was cracked due to the cold weather, and Rodin retained the remaining face model, that is, the face model of the man with a flat nose. He went to Brussels for the first time in 1870 and returned to Paris at the end of September. He was enlisted and became a corporal of the national defense forces. in February 1871, he retired from the army due to myopia, and then returned to Brussels to work as an assistant to the sculptor Carlie beliuz; in July, he fell out with beliuz and parted ways; in the end of September, he settled in ixier; in the same year, he participated in the exhibition of Antwerp and gent. In 1872, he participated in exhibitions in Brussels and Vienna. On February 12, 1873, he signed an agreement with the Belgian sculptor Joseph van rasbourgh: the income was divided equally, the work was signed as van rasbourgh, and the order was signed in the name of rasbourgh; in the same year, he participated in exhibitions in Brussels and Vienna (Austria). In 1874, he participated in exhibitions in London, Ghent and Brussels; in the same year, he created a series of decorative group portraits science, commerce, agriculture and art for the academic palace in Brussels; in the same year, he created decorative bust Susan and docia. from may to June in 1875, the marble bust of the man with a flat nose became the first work accepted by the Paris Salon Exhibition; in autumn, he created the bronze statue of the defeated (later renamed Bronze Age); in November, he signed a contract with the Brussels foundry bronz company to cast Susan; in the same year, he created Mr. SRIA and Alexander van beclaya Like. In 1876, he went to Rome, Naples and Florence to study in March. In the same year, he participated in the Philadelphia World Expo. in January 1877, the plaster statue of the bronze age was exhibited in the art and Literature Club of Brussels; in March, he returned to Paris; in May, he exhibited the Bronze Age in the salon of French artists in Paris, which made Rodin questioned and accused of using a real-life inverted model; in September, he began to share a studio in the rue verno with Leon fulcaire. from may to June, 1879, the bust of St. John the Baptist was exhibited in the Salon Exhibition; in November, the statue of belona, which was created for the Paris Monument and the government of the Republic, was not selected; in the same year, he worked for decoration artists such as Legrain and krucher; in the same year, he went to the palace of Longshang in Marseilles with Leon fulcaire, and to nice and Strasbourg with Charles Gautier In the same year, he was employed in the seifler workshop and stayed there until December 1882. From May to June 1880, he exhibited St. John the Baptist at the Salon Exhibition, and the French government ordered the bronze statue of the bronze age first. In July, in order to facilitate his work, the management of the Academy of fine arts granted him the use of the studio of marble warehouse at 182 university street. Since then, it has become Rodin's main working place. In the same year, the bronze statue of the bronze age was exhibited. In the same year, the French Academy of fine arts awarded him the use of the studio of marble warehouse at 182 university street The government commissioned Rodin to make a commemorative gate for the decorative art museum to be built. Because of the influence of the Divine Comedy hell, Rodin named it the gate of hell, which was not completed after 37 years. from may to June, 1881, the plaster of Adam was on display; in the summer, the first trip to England was conducted, accompanied by the painter and sculptor Alfonso Legro, to appreciate the sculpture in London; in October, the government purchased the bronze statue of St. John the Baptist, and ordered two statues of Adam and Eve for combination with the gate of hell; in winter, the government started to create EVA. from 1881 to 1882, he created the first group images of the gate of hell, including the thinker, the kiss, the meditation, the squatting woman, and the figure of Alphonse Legro. from may to June, 1882, two busts of Jean Paul low and Albert Ernest carrieu Belize were exhibited; in spring, the face model of the man with a flat nose was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in London, which attracted the interest of some artists and collectors; in autumn, the two door leaves of the gate of hell were combined with an integral structure. from February to March 1883, the first independent statues and some drawings of Hellgate and little Eve were exhibited in the free art club of Paris; from February to April 1883, they created the bust of Victor Hugo; in the same year, they often participated in the salon of Alina menar Dorian and created the bust of Rolfe. from may to June, 1884, the bust of Victor Hugo and the bust of Jules Daru were exhibited in the Salon Exhibition; from June to July, the budget was made for the gate of hell; in summer, he participated in the exhibition of the International Art Association (George Bertie Gallery) for the first time; in the same year, he produced the first bronze statue of the thinker for Constantine ionid, and the bronze statue of St. John the Baptist was also made In the Luxembourg Museum, he created the plaster of eternal spring and the bust of Antonin Proust. on January 24, 1885, he received orders for the creation of the commemorative statue of Calais Yimin for Calais and the commemorative statue of Bastian leparge for lorindanville, among which, Calais Yimin was created by Rodin in his second studio at wozhla street; on August 20, Pierre bangrang was commissioned to make the bronze statue of the gate of hell; in the same year, he met Maurice Buddha That leaf, and create "I am beautiful" bronze. in the spring of 1886, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in London refused to exhibit bronze statues of the idyll of ixier; from June to July, some independent statues of the gate of hell were exhibited in the George Bertie Gallery; in the same year, he created models of wikuna McKenna and general Lynch for Santiago, Chile, and created William Henry. from may to July 1887, a large number of works were exhibited in the George Bertie Gallery, Ugolino and kiss were exhibited in Brussels, and in winter, they were exhibited by the French modern poet baudelay

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